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Such corporate safeguards are often shockingly lax, particularly when the transmission of computer data is involved. Many firms now routinely bounce this information off satellites instead of sending it over telephone lines. But satellite transmissions are easier to intercept. Companies often fail to take elementary precautions even when they use phone lines. Bank of America transfers about $20 billion by wire every day, for example, without making much use of either scrambling or encryption techniques for protection. The largest U.S. bank relies instead on its own security procedures...
...exploration of the solar system, however, J.P.L.'s future has seemed cloudy lately. Almost immediately after the Reagan Administration took office, it canceled a joint effort with the Europeans to survey the sun's unexplored polar regions. The U.S. also dropped out of the race to intercept Halley's comet, slated to return in early 1986, leaving direct examination of this primordial chunk of matter to the Soviets, Europeans and Japanese. It placed on hold a plan to put a remote radar-mapping satellite in orbit around Venus, and has delayed until at least 1986 a complex...
...changed names like Apolo. Asian manufacturers have so successfully duplicated the silicon micro chips in the core of the Apple machines that the imitations can use a broad range of software, from VisiCalc, the top-selling business budgeting and planning program, to video games like Snack Attack and Rocket Intercept...
...through their regular intelligence network. Since then, the Soviets have launched at least six other reconnaissance satellites in orbits that take them over the South Atlantic, where they can watch both Argentine and British military movements. The intelligence-gathering space vehicles perform various functions. Two were put up to intercept communications. Two others were radar-sensing satellites designed to pick up radar transmissions, particularly from ships. Several were reconnaissance satellites that photograph objects on land or sea and eject capsules of exposed film when the satellites pass over the U.S.S.R. The capsules parachute to earth for recovery and processing...
...Venus surface and helped the Soviets select the landing sites.) In 1985 another pair of Soviet probes will be dropped into the Venusian atmosphere while their mother ship hurtles on toward a rendezvous with Halley's comet. The U.S., meanwhile, is passing up the chance to intercept that rare heavenly visitor, and its plans for another visit to Venus remain in limbo...